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Don't become an Expert Beginner
This post is older by now but still so, so important - and this is something that is universal to all learning, not just software development (or bowling!). Erik Dietrich explains How Developers Stop Learning. [READ MORE]
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Git autofix for amending Pull Requests
A quick share of two custom commands for instantly rebasing edits back into their proper commits in your feature branch. [READ MORE]
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A Comprehensive Degree of Ruby 2.3
A wide-ranged look at the newly released Ruby 2.3 - covering everything from the pragmatic, blog-popular methods (the safe navigation operator, Hash#dig, etc) to performance increases (HTML escaping is now up to 7x faster!) and the experimental features to save and load instruction sequences for Ruby’s virtual machine. [READ MORE]
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Introducing Dug
Dug is a simple, configurable gem to organize your GitHub notification emails in ways Gmail can't and in an easier-to-maintain way than large, slow Google Apps Scripts. [READ MORE]
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Manually setting languages on GitHub with Linguist's (Improved) Vim Modeline Detection
Useful even for non-Vim users: You can use Vim modelines to manually set the programming language for a file on GitHub (syntax highlighting, stats) - now with more flexible modeline syntax. [READ MORE]
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Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer
“The times I feel I’ve made most difference to our team’s effectiveness is when I find ways to not build things.“ [READ MORE]
Chris Arcand
Principal Engineer building Terraform at HashiCorp 👨💻 Formerly: Red Hat, NBC SportsEngine, RubyMN organizer. Once played the clarinet for a living, now making a living to play hockey. I make pointless connections to Minnesota as a Minnesotan does.
St. Paul, MN